812AM Michigan Science Center in Detroit
812AM Michigan Science Center in Detroit
United State Postal Service: Planetary Stamp Delivery to the Michigan Science Center
In honor of the USPS new planetary stamps, a mail carrier rushes to deliver the stamps from space to the Michigan Science Center.
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- Socrates
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The Michigan Science Center is a science museum in Detroit, Michigan. It is located at the site of the former Detroit Science Center which closed in 2011. The Michigan Science Center was formed as a new non-profit organization and purchased the assets of the Detroit Science Center. The Michigan Science Center (MiSci) opened December 26, 2012.
The Michigan Science Center has Michigan’s only Chrysler IMAX Dome Theatre; the Dassault Systèmes Planetarium; the DTE Energy Sparks Theater; the Chrysler Science Stage; a 8,700-square-foot (810 m2) Science Hall for traveling exhibits; hands-on exhibit galleries focusing on space, life and physical science; the United States Steel Fun Factory; an exhibit gallery just for pint-size scientists; and more.
Michigan Science Center Launches STEMinista Project
The goal of the Michigan Science Center’s STEMinista Project is to defy statistics and raise expectations by sparking and maintaining the interest in STEM in elementary and middle school girls. We aim to broaden the pipeline of the next generation of STEMinistas. The Program will engage girls with authentic STEM experiences designed to increase their interest, confidence and skill sets in STEM. Through these encounters we will inspire girls to leverage their interests and skills into the STEM careers and STEMpreneurship that support their dreams and create meaningful impact in the world.
Detroit Science Center
June 18, 2011
Dearborn, Michigan
In the last 12 months the city of Dearborn, MI has been thrown into conflict. A conflict about fear, ideology and identity politics –which has at its heart the central question of what it means to be an American today. Home to the largest mosque in North America, it is a place of apparent contradictions: simultaneously a sleepy affluent suburb and the subject of rumours around ISIS terror cells and sharia law.
This film takes us into the lives of five very different citizens who have been caught in the crossfire, from Muslims to Christians, citizen militias and young university graduates. For all, their American identity is paramount. As they grapple with questions of religion, race and class, do these separate communities have more in common than they realise?
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Detroit Science Center on March 30 CERN Large Hadron Collider part 1
Recording children's behavior on march 30 when the Large Hadron Collider had it's first successful collision. From internal random generators to statistical processes in the real-world engineering dynamics.
The Detroit Science Center is a science museum in Detroit, Michigan.
The Science Center has Michigans only Chrysler IMAX Dome Theatre; the Dassault Systèmes Planetarium; the DTE Energy Sparks Theater; the Chrysler Science Stage; an 8,700 square-foot Science Hall for traveling exhibits; hands-on exhibit galleries focusing on space, life and physical science; the United States Steel Fun Factory; an exhibit gallery just for pint-size scientists; and a Special Events Lobby.
The museum has served more than 2.1 million visitors since its grand re-opening on July 28, 2001. It is one of the 10 largest science museums in the country.
Spark!Lab at the Michigan Science Center
Visit the new invention and innovation space at the Michigan Science Center.
Students Experience Orion Space Mission At Michigan Science Center
The Michigan Science Center held a splash down celebration Friday for the inaugural flight of the Orion spacecraft.
Problem @ Detroit, MI, USA
Problem @ Detroit, MI, USA
I drove through the worst parts of Detroit, Michigan. This is what I saw.
Wow! Detroit has some really crazy areas! We begin our journey in Detroit on M102. No, that’s not a radio station. That’s 8 mile road.
We drove down 8 mile road on our way into Detroit. 8 mile road is north of Detroit, about 8 miles north of downtown.
Along the way, we saw many shuttered businesses, and other downtrodden sights.
Of course, 8 mile was made famous by the movie 8 mile, starring Eminem.
8 Mile Road has also always been the physical and cultural dividing line between the wealthier, predominantly white northern suburbs of Detroit and the poorer, predominantly black city.
You can see on this map exactly what I’m referring to. As we drive, heading west, on our left is the black population, where people earn about $30k a year, and on our right is the white population where people earn about $75k a year
Then, we left 8 mile road and hopped onto 75 South to head into Detroit proper..
We got off the 75 South at Grand Avenue and headed west. We read online that an area near Rosa Parks Blvd was particularly bad, so we went there first. As it turned out, this wasn’t even the worst area we would see.
At this point, we were 4 miles from downtown. For perspective you can see on this map where we were. The homes here were in pretty bad shape, but like what we had seen in Flint about two hours earlier, in many of these downtrodded neighborhoods, people were not outside. The streets were just eerily empty.
Did you know Detroit has lost ⅔ of its population?
I’ve been to east Cleveland once. That was really bad.
But in East Cleveland, at least they had houses, not just open spaces.
Detroit has lost 1.2 million people in the last 70 years. Of course, that’s because of the auto industry decline, mostly. That’s pretty common knowledge.
In the neighborhood we were in, rent was about $450 a month for the entire house. You can see why.
Now, we’re going to let this go for a minute or two and then take you to the worst area we saw that morning.
So we left that neighborhood and took Linwood, one of the really bad thoroughfares in Detroit. We wanted to go to the Northwest Goldberg neighborhood, which we read was one of the worst in the city.
Of course, Detroit has issues with crime and poverty. One in three people in Detroit lives in poverty. In 1950, 82% of Detroit was white. Now, it’s 82% black. And, of the top 12 employers in Detroit, all but 2 are government jobs. Meaning there’s not a lot of private enterprise here.
Of course, people talk of a Detroit resurgence. While the downtown area itself is improving and adding jobs, the outlying areas like this haven’t even been touched. And apparently, there are businesses who want to grow in Detroit, but they can’t find people who are either motivated or skilled to take those jobs. So the city is actively trying to recruit skilled people to the city, offering tax breaks and cheap housing.
But progress is progress, and there’s an air of hope and optimism among some Detroit folks. Mostly in areas not close to this.
For perspective here’s a map that shows where we are from downtown. We’re even closer to downtown and it’s really abandoned as we’ll see.
Now this neighborhood wasn’t really dangerous - at least we didn’t see any people lingering and never felt threatened. So whoever actually lives in this neighborhood was either hiding inside, sleeping or not home. Sometimes, you’d see a guy on a bike or a few people on their porch, but that was it.
But it was really interesting to see block after block where you would see large areas where homes were razed, and the city was essentially turning parts of the city back to nature. It’s an...urban prairie. The homes left are mostly gutted or have some sort of fire damage. Some of the alleys looked like hiking trails.
But it isn't scary. That’s because it’s early in the day, we can see, and we’re driving in a car that looks like an undercover cop car. So people are giving us a wide berth.
Now, we’re going to let this video just roll. We have about 15 minutes more of just footage, where we looked at different areas of Detroit - all on the city’s northwest end. For the most part, these areas were run down, but occasionally, as you’ll see there are small areas that aren’t too bad.
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Major General Gwen Bingham | Michigan Science Center STEMinista Project
March 4, 2016
Mike Kelley: Going West on Michigan Avenue from Downtown Detroit to Westland (excerpt)
Excerpt from Mike Kelley's 'Going West on Michigan Avenue from Downtown Detroit to Westland' (2010--2011).
Duration of full video: 76:15 min
In 2011, artist Mike Kelley created his public art project. A full-scale replica of the 1950s suburban home in which he grew up was relocated to Detroit city centre in a reversal of the 'white flight' which followed the uprisings known as the '12th Street riot' in 1967.
Three videos chart this voyage. This, the first, follows the replica homestead as it heads west along Michigan Avenue from downtown Detroit towards Westland, the location of the original homestead. Through interviews we meet residents from the wealthy area of Dearborn, the impoverished black neighbourhoods of Inkster and the white working-class outskirts of Wayne and Westland.
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(c) Estate of Mike Kelley. All rights reserved. Courtesy of the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts.
Detroit Historical Museum, Detroit, MI [HD] 24 min
Detroit Historical Museum
5401 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI 48202
(313) 833-7935
Video from: July 2014
Streets of Old Detroit exhibit -- stroll through streets in the 19th century.
America's Motor City exhibit.
Remember the WRIF bumper stickers? I certainly do.
Solidarity.
The Allesee Gallery of Culture exhibit.
Kid Rock Music Lab exhibit.
Information on all the Motown greats -- Stevie, Supremes, Marvin, The Four Tops, Michael, Smokey, etc.
Frontiers to Factories: Detroit at Work, 1701-1901 exhibit.
Booth-Wilkinson Gallery special exhibit.
Doorway to Freedom -- Detroit and the Underground Railroad exhibit -- this is a very powerful and moving exhibit.
Detroit Artists Showcase special exhibit.
Detroit: The Arsenal of Democracy exhibit.
The Glancy Trains exhibit.
Meier's Wonderful Clock exhibit -- took Louis Meier, Sr. 12 years to complete this 14 feet high, 2,600 pound clock made of hand-carved mahogany, a detailed glass clock face, and intricate mechanisms.
Discovery Science Center: A Non-Profit Organization
Michigan Science Center.
Acting Silly With My Girls At The Detroit Science Center.
Detroit Science Center | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:00:53 History
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.
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Speaking Rate: 0.8869164237971632
Voice name: en-AU-Wavenet-C
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
=======
The Michigan Science Center is a science museum in Detroit, Michigan. It is located at the site of the former Detroit Science Center which closed in 2011. The Michigan Science Center was formed as a new non-profit organization and purchased the assets of the Detroit Science Center. The Michigan Science Center (MiSci) opened December 26, 2012.
The Michigan Science Center has Michigan’s only Chrysler IMAX Dome Theatre; the Dassault Systèmes Planetarium; the DTE Energy Sparks Theater; the Chrysler Science Stage; a 8,700-square-foot (810 m2) Science Hall for traveling exhibits; hands-on exhibit galleries focusing on space, life and physical science; the United States Steel Fun Factory; an exhibit gallery just for pint-size scientists; and more.